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Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 298 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 3

Speech: Untitled [Topic: singing styles; singing styles simpler in north of Ireland; Seamus Delargy said that that was also true of folk tales; singing styles and tales most intricate in south; style in Connemara is archaic; example melody: Cailin Deas Cruite na mBo / The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow; Cait Ni Mhuimhneachain; explanation of song content]

Ennis, Seamus, Dublin - lecture in English [= speech in English]

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 298 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 9

Speech: Untitled (incomplete) [Topic: instrumental music; Irish did not use harmony; primitively flavoured singing of Connemara; woodwind instruments carried by the Celts on their travels; these instruments derive from the shepherd's reed with which he called his flock; that reed was later developed to a bagpipe; which came first, string or reed instruments?; quotes Dryden's 'Ode to Saint Cecilia's Day'] [END OF BAND ONE]

Ennis, Seamus, Dublin - lecture in English [= speech in English]

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